I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I was a teen in the early 90s. We had the best music. Lot’s of diversity among my friends but that was just normal so I didn’t really notice until the US got super racist and bigoted. Then I was like, “wow! were we all woke the whole time?” It was a better time. Also the local shrubbery was amazing, not like this new gas station garbage we have today. Most of us felt like we had a future. I feel so sorry for kids today, like, we failed you kiddos.
they failed you. Dw OP I trust you’re not to blame
This is very interesting and I like to hear it. I didn’t know the USA got more bigoted
The people who argue the USA was “always this bigoted” skip over the entire period between the Civil Rights movement and GamerGate. If your reference point for the past is like, the 90s or 00s, no it wasn’t as bigoted. Not to say there was no bigotry, but it wasn’t acceptable to be outwardly hateful, and most people believed the future would be more progressive.
Might be they just didn’t see it because they were a kid.
I grew up with casual racism from my dad and grandfather.
My family was always multi racial but you would also hear hard Rs at family get togethers.
Depends on the part of the country too I’m sure.
Well, idk if I would say “more”. The median has gotten less bigoted (people care a little more when you say certain slurs), but I also think that the more conservative people have gotten significantly more bigoted.
It was always bigoted. they were lynching black men until 1981.
Yeah most people tend to srgue thst the usa has been in a continous racism decay, being max racist upon its conception as a country (1600s). I’m still interested in OP’s opinion from their frame of reference - sort of suggests the truth is more nuanced and might be tied to prosperity of the country
I wrote a 3k character history about racism in the US, but it killed itself. Basically, racism in the North and West has gotten worse when things get bad, racism in the South got worse after the Revolution and stayed bad for a long time, but has somewhat decreased recently, the Western US hated Chinese people in the mid to late 19th century enough to get them banned from the country for a few decades, the country hated Japanese people during the first couple decades of the 20th century mostly because of Japan’s imperialism, racism related to Asia is mostly directed towards China, a lot of it is related to the CCP and the consumption of dogs, there’s quite a bit about India for reasons I can’t really think of (maybe it was imported from Britain???) mostly about them being doctors, surgeons, liquor store and gas station owners and smelling bad (idfk) (the doctor, surgeon, lawyer or engineer thing is about all of Asia (the part that most Americans think Asia is)), people that are actually hateful towards Asian people are far less common than they used to be, racism against Arabs peaked in the 2000s, it’s somewhat decreasing over time, Americans don’t care about people being Polish, German, Irish, or Italian anymore (too late, they were forced to give up their cultures to survive, especially the last three), racism against Latinos is a slightly more recent development resulting from more of them immigrating in recent decades, it’s really bad in certain places, but a lot (probably even most people tbh) of people truly don’t give a shit, racism against black people is a national constant, although it ranges from complete ignorance (there’s states that are less than 1% black, such as Montana and Wyoming, which is insane since 14.4% of the country is black) to outright hatred, most common in the South, but not particularly hard to find anywhere in the country, the govermment is most prejudiced against black people by an absolute fucking landslide.
This is also really fucking long, but I spent a long time on it, so please read it. Please. I’m begging you.
The death of the music industry was, in some ways, a lot like the death of reverse-fox-news.
Now it’s just fox news.